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Java still king of the hill, according to TIOBE index for July 2016. But does it surprise you that Assembly Language has made it into the top 10. Java, C and C++ have been consistent at the top for about the last 10 years occupying positions 1, 2 and 3.

Why is it that so many people hate Agile not that they just hate agile, but that they will og out their way to be so vocal about it.

People are often averse to change. When new things come about that threaten there comfortable way of life, they put up a brick wall and defend with all they got. Even if it means they have to make up some ridiculous excuses.

Visual Studio Professional for free. Do my eyes deceive me? Microsoft is now offering free download full edition of Visual Studio Professional. Aptly named, Visual Studio Community Edition. It is the fully featured professional edition with some license limitations for enterprise users.

With all the hype about free and open source software, Microsoft have gotten their fair share of criticism in this area. Microsoft now offers the new Visual Studio Community for Visual Studio 2013 and Visual...

A normal database is never just one table. In fact a normal database is a collection of tables. In a relational database we have many tables related to each other. Querying these tables efficiently brings enhanced performance to a database based application.

Entity Framework offers several different ways to load the entities that are related to each other. For example, when you query for SalesOrderDetails, there are different ways that the related Products will be queried and loaded.

Human Rights! What are they? So many issues surrounding Human rights. They are abused, and some are even made up to either puff up our ego or hide some criminal action or intent.

Rights and freedom have existed throughout human history. Most of the time they were generally accepted and implied. Like the right to live, and the right to defend yourself. But in the modern world and in many countries human rights and been legislated into law.

Finding out what the most popular programming language is and or what the trend is will put you in good stead whether you are staring out or a seasoned programmer.

Finding what the latest trends are is also a good investigative method when planning a new project. This will give you a good indication as to what is available, what others are using, as well as what the long term trends are. The last thing you want is to use a language that might be the in thing today, but completely falls off...

Finally bought an Apple product. An Apple iPad mini to be exact. My wife wanted one so much. I'm not much of an Apple fan, but caved in against my better judgement and bout the Apple iPad mini.

The apple iPad and the iPad mini is a very sleek and attractive device. Owning an iPad or perhaps any Apple product is much of a fashion statement as owning a Gucci handbag or a Carducci suit. Alongside what is advertised as a great product, there is the promise of hundreds of thousands of apps, games and music. However, owning an Apple product in South Africa or any so called third world states, or in fact any Apple product such as the iPad and iPad mini is completely useless. Reason being that the Apple South African store is so restrictive that you cannot download about 80%-90% of the apps, games, movies and music....

Windows Phone 7.8 is an update for Windows Phone 7.5 phones. New features available in Windows Phone 7.8 include new customizable start screen, new tile sizes – small, medium, large, and 20 colours for theming.

That's the good news. The bad news is that not all Windows Phone 7.5 devices will be upgraded. It all depends on your country location, your make of phone and your carrier. From the Windows Phone site "The Windows Phone 7.8 update is not available in all markets or for all phones."...